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... trade , who ever heard of the smuggling of red lead and white lead ? You might , therefore , well enough , without danger of contraband , and without injury to commerce , ( if this were the whole 30 consideration , ) have taxed these ...
... trade , who ever heard of the smuggling of red lead and white lead ? You might , therefore , well enough , without danger of contraband , and without injury to commerce , ( if this were the whole 30 consideration , ) have taxed these ...
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... trade of England , as not to be felt , or felt but slightly , like white lead and red lead , and painters ' 5 colours ? Tea is an object of far other importance . Tea is perhaps the most important object , taking it with its neces- sary ...
... trade of England , as not to be felt , or felt but slightly , like white lead and red lead , and painters ' 5 colours ? Tea is an object of far other importance . Tea is perhaps the most important object , taking it with its neces- sary ...
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... trades , 2 and the possession of imperial revenues , had brought you to the verge of beggary and ruin.3 Such was your ... trade of tea that your East India conquests are to be prevented from crushing 30 you with their burthen . They are ...
... trades , 2 and the possession of imperial revenues , had brought you to the verge of beggary and ruin.3 Such was your ... trade of tea that your East India conquests are to be prevented from crushing 30 you with their burthen . They are ...
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... trade of your colo- nies to every nation but yourselves . Never did a people 5 suffer so much for the empty words of a preamble . It must be given up . For on what principle does it stand ? This famous revenue stands , at this hour , on ...
... trade of your colo- nies to every nation but yourselves . Never did a people 5 suffer so much for the empty words of a preamble . It must be given up . For on what principle does it stand ? This famous revenue stands , at this hour , on ...
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... trade was let loose from that constraint , but merely to enable the colonists to dispose of what , in the course of your trade , you could not take ; or to enable them 30 to dispose of such articles as we forced upon them , and for ...
... trade was let loose from that constraint , but merely to enable the colonists to dispose of what , in the course of your trade , you could not take ; or to enable them 30 to dispose of such articles as we forced upon them , and for ...
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